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Speaking of warbirds making e landings, one of the hellcats peeled off and landed at Reagan with engine issues today. All good though. I had great fun today. Also stopped by the NASM for the first time and I'll be going to UH tomorrow for the first time too. Have a Skytrain too 
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What the gently caress did I just board.  From the rear.
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May 9, 2015 09:25
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Jealous Cow posted:What the gently caress did I just board. SK2865, an SAS ATR-72 600 known to the authorities as OY-JZC, departing the beautiful city of Bergen, Norway for Copenhagen, Denmark. Sorry to hear you got delayed, at least you got to enjoy a sunny Saturday in Bergen a bit longer, we have about five of those a year. e: Flesland airport is departing to the south today, so I can't take an internet detective photo of Jealous Cow from my window but we can e-stalk him here http://fr24.com/SAS2865/63603ba Taxiing for departure now! 
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May 9, 2015 09:40
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I was wrong! Flesland is departing to the north. Taken from my living room window looking west, behold Jealous Cow in his little ATR-72 above sunny Bergen, just after they have turned south towards Copenhagen.   Hope the ATR-72 cruises below those cirrus clouds, you'll get some lovely views.
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May 9, 2015 10:00
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I'm not sure if I'm impressed or creeped out.
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May 9, 2015 13:11
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I'm impressed. Anyone else going to the Millville, NJ air show this weekend?
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May 9, 2015 14:00
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Ola posted:I was wrong! Flesland is departing to the north. Taken from my living room window looking west, behold Jealous Cow in his little ATR-72 above sunny Bergen, just after they have turned south towards Copenhagen. Sometimes the internet still amazes me.
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May 9, 2015 14:00
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Colonial Air Force posted:I'm not sure if I'm impressed or creeped out. I for one am absolutely impressed. The internet is a magical place. On a different topic,  Saw this weird icon and turns out it's a glider. It's sadly not doing a very great job at gliding. e: There's a Bombardier Global 6000 landed at my local (tinyass, regional) airport. What the christ is it doing here and why oh why can't I go visit it and see that beautiful glass cockpit in person 
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May 9, 2015 14:32
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Looks like an A400M went down in Seville. I think most or all of the crew is dead?
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May 9, 2015 14:39
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Two have been taken to hospital, 3 haven been confirmed dead and two are missing. Apparently it was the first flight of the first example for the Turkish airforce.
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May 9, 2015 15:07
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May 9, 2015 15:35
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Ola posted:SK2865, an SAS ATR-72 600 known to the authorities as OY-JZC, departing the beautiful city of Bergen, Norway for Copenhagen, Denmark. Sorry to hear you got delayed, at least you got to enjoy a sunny Saturday in Bergen a bit longer, we have about five of those a year. So I don't see a registration in the screenshot, did he leave GPS metadata in the picture? (can't check myself atm) Inacio posted:I for one am absolutely impressed. The internet is a magical place. You may think that its only fancy executives that fly in those kinds of jets, but a lot of jets like that are used by engineers and service crews for industries where every second of downtime costs $$$$$. Think oil. hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 15:51 on May 9, 2015 |
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May 9, 2015 15:48
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hobbesmaster posted:So I don't see a registration in the screenshot, did he leave GPS metadata in the picture? (can't check myself atm) I'm guessing he works at Bergen Lufthavn and recognized the gate.
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May 9, 2015 15:49
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hobbesmaster posted:So I don't see a registration in the screenshot, did he leave GPS metadata in the picture? (can't check myself atm) Has it not occurred to anyone that they may know each other IRL, after all, they were for some time until today, in the same city, and that Ola may have known that JC was leaving on a specific airline from that airport, and just looked it up. Goons meeting up with other goons isn't an exactly unusual occurance  e: ok, JC's post above quashes that theory
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May 9, 2015 15:52
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Oh, yeah if you travel out of an airport frequently you can recognize gates.
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May 9, 2015 15:53
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I've posted photos from airports all over the world and have never had anything like this happen. I have no idea who that is.
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May 9, 2015 15:54
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I have a pretty good idea where Ola’s living room is located now, but I’m just going to keep it to myself. I can confirm it’s in Bergen.
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May 9, 2015 16:04
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I'm departing for a year deployment to Honduras today (IAD->IAH->TGU). Can't wait for the somewhat crazy landing at TGU. Since I'm only 31, and missed the chance to land at Kai Tak, this is one of the airports on my bucket to land at. Made sure to make a little sacrifice and get a window seat for the IAH->TGU leg just to get a cool view. (I'm 6'3, so I'm a aisle/exit-row ranger) Saba's on my list. That might be in the cards for a mid-tour vacation. Here's a YT for those not familiar. I hear it's a little less crazy because they've lengthened the runway or somesuch, but still looking forward to it. https://youtu.be/v_z5HtME9n8 Headed down there to be a producer/DJ for AFN Honduras at Soto Cano Air Base. Why they discontinued MAC flights to there, I have no idea. Now I have to fly to Toncontin and then take a 50 mile bus ride through the mountains.... 
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May 9, 2015 16:13
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So happy about the reaction. I don't work at the airport, but recognised the gate. Also recognised the airline colors. From there on in it was just a matter of looking up departures. The photo is from my living room for real! The internet is fun.
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May 9, 2015 16:15
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hobbesmaster posted:So I don't see a registration in the screenshot, did he leave GPS metadata in the picture? (can't check myself atm) Ryanair has a Lear 35 they use to shuttle techs and parts to outstations, so there's that I guess.
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May 9, 2015 17:33
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Tsuru posted:There's no loving way any corporation sends their lowly engineers up in a G6000. These are 50MM a pop and are for board-level execs... even when just visiting one of those they made me wear a pair of those overshoes. Being nitpicky, but it's a 45. Or was two years ago when I stopped working for them, anyway. Tiny little thing, fits in under the wing of a 737-800 in the hangar when it's not flying. Probably the most sensible investment they ever made, too. The first summer it was flying often enough to position crews, engineers and parts around Europe that it had 16 hour a day crew cover, seven days a week. That said, there are industries where something being broken costs far more than airline delays. Big factory production lines can cost many zeroes of lost income per hour if they're shut down.
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May 9, 2015 17:45
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Barnsy posted:The French air force does something similar with Mirage 2000s and Rafales in the middle of France. loving awesome going for a bike ride and seeing them slalom between mounts. Here's some French pilots pod-racing in Chad with their Mirage F1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m07rpFzMDNU There's another version of that video with a different soundtrack and a slightly longer duration, but in 240 max.
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May 9, 2015 18:35
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/09/spanish-air-force-cargo-plane-crashes-near-seville-airport An A400M crashed near a Coca Cola plant in Sevilla. Up to 10 may be dead. Aircraft was meant for the Turkish Airforce. Hambilderberglar fucked around with this message at 18:44 on May 9, 2015 |
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May 9, 2015 18:42
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Cat Mattress posted:There's another version of that video with a different soundtrack and a slightly longer duration, but in 240 max. Try this one http://vmashup.com/LlHUND2J
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May 9, 2015 18:47
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Jonny Nox posted:No, no, no. That's all wrong. 
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May 9, 2015 19:02
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goddamnit you guys got my OCD up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6NCRIW7YWI that song just fits that vid perfectly
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May 9, 2015 19:46
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Hambilderberglar posted:http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/09/spanish-air-force-cargo-plane-crashes-near-seville-airport How many Spanish Air Force crashes have there been in the last year, seems like I read something about them fairly recently (maybe a fighter jet crash)?
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May 9, 2015 19:50
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Cat Mattress posted:Here's some French pilots pod-racing in Chad with their Mirage F1: There used to be a really awesome video on youtube along the same lines as this, but of 1980s Gibralter based Bucaneer pilots buzzing the RFN's carrier in the med (at altitudes below the flight deck level), but I haven't been able to find it for a year or two now 
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May 9, 2015 20:34
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mustard_tiger posted:How many Spanish Air Force crashes have there been in the last year, seems like I read something about them fairly recently (maybe a fighter jet crash)? There was a Spanish Typhoon that crashed last year; but the recent military crashes in Spain were not by the Spanish Air Force. The first was at Albacete, were during a NATO "Tactical Leadership Program" training exercise, where a Greek two-seater F-16 just after take off made a hard turn to go crash on a bunch of French jets that were getting ready for taxiing, killing both Greek pilots and nine French Air Force personnel, including pilots, navigators, and ground staff. It also wounded many more, including some people from the Italian Air Force that were getting ready nearby. And now, this accident involves only Airbus personnel on an aircraft meant for Turkey.
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May 9, 2015 21:34
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Went to ogle the F-22s at KBFI. Only one was out. A real, combat coded Raptor! Pics when I get proper technology.
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May 9, 2015 22:15
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Jealous Cow posted:What the gently caress did I just board. How do you get a picture from that angle?  The model will be on the safety card. Please read the safety card.
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May 9, 2015 22:39
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I think you board those from the rear door. Or you can.
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May 9, 2015 22:53
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The Ferret King posted:I think you board those from the rear door. Alaska/Horizon does that with their Q400s, too.
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May 9, 2015 23:40
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VikingSkull posted:goddamnit you guys got my OCD up This was in the related videos section, swingin' tunes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEMi04eXju8 Didn't realize the F-16's wings flexed that much in a turn. (most visible at around 2:09)
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May 10, 2015 00:15
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Saw the flyover yesterday from the Kennedy Center and it was amazing. Drove to Dulles this morning, spent 30 min in a giant traffic jam trying to do the last three miles, then found out only a C-47 had made it. Hopefully people who went in the afternoon got to see something. We were only there two weeks ago when my folks were in town so it was a pointless drive out to Dulles made pleasant because we were in an i8.
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May 10, 2015 00:59
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Hambilderberglar posted:http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/09/spanish-air-force-cargo-plane-crashes-near-seville-airport The plane in Spain crashed mainly on the plains...
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May 10, 2015 02:15
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So I took 700 pictures from the Udvar-Hazy center today. I'll post some good ones here when I get back to Jersey tomorrow night-ish
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May 10, 2015 02:21
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drgitlin posted:Saw the flyover yesterday from the Kennedy Center and it was amazing. Drove to Dulles this morning, spent 30 min in a giant traffic jam trying to do the last three miles, then found out only a C-47 had made it. Later on in the day the A-26, Texan, Mustang, and Kitty hawk were there.
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May 10, 2015 02:28
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C.M. Kruger posted:This was in the related videos section, swingin' tunes. That F16 pilot looks like he's laying down
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Tide posted:That F16 pilot looks like he's laying down The F-16 seat is reclined something like 30 degrees. This is either to give better G tolerance, or because the cockpit isn't big enough to fit the ejection seat when mounted straighter, depending on who is explaining it.
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